[Bug 1030] Review request: xbmc - Media center

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1030





--- Comment #22 from rc040203 at freenet.de  2010-01-14 04:57:39 ---
(In reply to comment #20)
> (In reply to comment #19)
> > (In reply to comment #17)
> > > * Has anybody tested "xbmc-standalone" rsp. the xbmc.desktop?
> > > My attempts were without much success. AFAICT, xbmc-standalone doesn't seem to
> > > be applicable on Fedora and needs to be reworked.
> > 
> > Same here. I have never got this working under fedora.
> 
> What do mean "not working"?
Different kinds of audio related issues.

>From xbmc issueing "failed to initialize audio device" messages, over "being
unable to control audio volume" to always "full volume"/"very low volume".
What exactly happens seems to be machine-, account- and
xbmc-built/version/patch dependent.

AFAIU, xbmc in a standalone-session tries to use alsa => I am likely facing the
zoo of problems related to initializing alsa.

>  Does the script not run?
The script tries to launch pulseaudio and then to fallback to "native xbmc" if
pulseaudio is not available, using "pulse-session".

pulse-session doesn't exist under Fedora 
=> xbmc-standalone always falls back to using "native xbmc".
=> If we indent to always use pulse-audio, this script needs to be modified.
May-be something along the lines of:
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog --use-pid-file
/usr/bin/xbmc -fs --standalone "$@"
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --kill --use-pid-file
I am not sure.

> Are you referring maybe to the /usr/share/xsessions/XBMC.desktop functionality
> where it launches an entire session from GDM? 
Yes, this is what I am referring to. 

> xbmc-standalone, the binary
> seems to work at least.
Well, not for me: 

Testcase: Reboot into GDM; login into an xbmc-session; try to play an audio
file.

On one machine this appears to work, on another one I am receiving "failed to
initialize audio device" warnings or am unable to control the audio volume.
What exactly happens seems to depend upon the account I using to launch such an
xbmx-session. On freshly created accounts, I am receiving "faild to initialize
audio device", on previously used accounts, I typically end up with sound but
without ability to control the audio volume.


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